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Utah could have a health insurance cooperative by 2013, if federal officials endorse the Aarches Community Health Care plan introduced today.

Gastroenterologist Vinod Singh, MD, has joined Valley View Medical Center in Fort Mohave, Ariz., according to a Mohave Daily News report.

Reza Shaker, MD, chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, has developed a new device to help treat patients suffering from severe acid reflux, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.

A new online learning portal highlighting clinical techniques for pain management physicians is now live, Kimberly-Clark Healthcare announced this week.

Opioids may be linked to the growth and spread of cancer, according to two Anesthesiology studies reported on ABC News.

HHS has announced a contest, "Now Trending - #Health in My Community," challenging Web developers to create Web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time.

Here are 15 new statistics on pain management case volume, according to data from VMG Health's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

A New Jersey proposal would instate approximately 1,000 price codes controlling how much physicians, surgery centers and hospitals can charge for outpatient treatments for auto accidents, while abolishing another 117 price controls due to physician backlash, according to an NJ.com…

A California court last week ruled that nurses trained to administer anesthetics can give them to patients without physician supervision, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…